Soviet Propoganda Posters...

An incredible collection of soviet propoganda posters. I've just discovered Flickr recently and found it to be an awesome resource. This link is a good place to start!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpx/sets/72057594117941491/

Two posts in one day!??!

One of the coolest things I've seen in a while. Stitched quicktime panoramas. I've seen stuff like this before used for movie promotion and stuff. But never for real world events like Katrina or the war in Iraq. Check it out:

http://www.panoramas.dk/newspanos/index.html

Through the rough patch...

Yeah...it's been tough this semester. But I made it through. My last day was Friday, and things went pretty well. My head drawgin teacher was never really satisfied with my drawings, but I'm going to post them here all the same! I think I've figured out how to post video, so as soon as I can get my animation done I'll put it up here...

Don't hate me cause I'm busy!

Finals, moving, working...I'm one busy person right now! I'm going to post more things soon. But I thought I would throw up a post cause it's 12:30 am and I'm officially 28! Horray!

John K has his own blog!

For those of you who loved ren and stimpy...John K, the creator, has his own blog complete with his insance sketches and paintings...seriously check his stuff out and place a comment on the page. The more comments he gets, the closer he comes to making new cartoons!

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/

Another head drawing....

Here's another head drawing I did for class. I've got a lot of animation and storyboarding work ta do and no time to work on it cause of my apartment and to move. Well, coffee has helped me out before....

Here's some head drawings I did in class. The one of the old man is unfinished. I think they toned paper technique is pretty fun...but I need to stop making my people look like they just ran through an electrical windstorm...ah well...

My cat is adorable...

So deal with it...

Dreamworks ramping up for hiring binge?

That's right all you 3d people out there. Get you reels and portfolios ready.

Check it out...

School and life and...uh...where's the weekend?

Yeah so things have been kinda nuts over here in San Fran. The special lady friend should be out here any day and I'm trying to find a place for us to live. In addition school just started (yes I have homework already) and I'm putting in extra hours at the job.

All this and I still have enough sanity to do an in-class drawing...probably one of my better head drawings...looks a little melony in the noggin, but I think it LOOKS more solid that a lot of my other charcoal drawings...

Oh...I posted some sketchbook pages over at concpet art too...here's the link.

more later ;)

Inspirational Notes from Disney Workshops...

Animation Meat recently posted a whole buncha pdf from the drawing instructor for Walt Disney Studios. Really nice stuff. Check it out even if you're not an animator!

http://www.animationmeat.com/notes/waltstanchfield/waltstanchfield.html

Probably the most important post I'll ever make...

http://www.the-underdogs.org/

For those of you unfamiliar with this site, it's a post of all the games that are the creme de la creme...and out of print. So, you loved playing System Shock or Captin Goodnight and wanna have another crack at it.

They got 'em all. And most of them can be downloaded for free via BitTorrent.

Go and be merry.

About my 2d animation links....

I'm letting my subsciption to my web hosting service expire on the 1st of Feb. I haven't set up another place to put those little examples of my work, but when I find something I'll be sure to put them up again on the site.

If anywaon knows of any free hosing for movies, please let me know

Gopher Broke finally put online...

I've been waiting to see this for a while. Gopher Broke is a very cool shot by Blur Studios down in LA. They have two other shorts whic you should check out on their website as well as some ad stuff which is pretty cool too. Really inspiring stuff.

Watch Gopher Broke short

Blur Studios Web Site

Great website for animation and inspiration...

This guys stuff is pretty cool. He's got a unique style...kinda like Bill Plympton but a little more refined.

http://www.squarefootagefilms.com/smith/index.html

Concept art link...

Just realized I didn't provide the URL! I'm going to post all my sketchbook stuff over there from now on...but I'll let u know when I make a post so u can go check it...

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=59922

Some stuff from my sketchbook...

I started a sketchbook thread over at conceptart.org...and awesome website if you've never been there before. I'll post some of the images here too ;)

IPod TP holder a little late for xmas...

So, I went to MacWorld last week. I got in free so I decided ta go even thought I don't own a mac. Man, was it silly. A whole expo of useless ipod crap. Here' my favore though. A combo ipod/tp holder. I know I want one...



Also, I've posted a few of my animations from school on my website. Just click on the links and they should download to your computer. The final animation has a little error with black bars flying across the screen (you'll see it) which I should be able to fix when I go back and scan the drawings in. Nothing amazing, but you can see how I'm improving just between last semester and now.

http://grosscartoons.org/T&GPics/

BTW, the final project movie was probably over 500 individual drawings. Here's what the final stack of movies looks like...

Preview footage for new Zelda game!

Here's a video preview of actual gameplay footage for the new Zelda game! Yay!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6760524994902687555&q=nintendo

New Sounds for New Windows...

I don't normally post news items, but this was really interesting. Turns out the guitarist from King Crimson has been creating the new default sounds for windows vista, the new operating system that's coming out soon. Can't wait to have Thrakattak playing on startup ;).

http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=151853